The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year C

The Fifth Sunday of Lent

Isaiah 43.16–21
Philippians 3.4b–14
John 12.1–8

Our Lenten readings have now brought us face to face with what this season is about. We are attempting, with some discipline, to prepare ourselves for Good Friday and Easter. At the start of Lent, with the story of his testing in the wilderness, we see Jesus accepting his calling, with all that will be involved in that. Now at last, in the passage from John’s Gospel, some of those around Jesus are beginning to understand where the road to Jerusalem is really leading...